The Octocube of mystery

On first sight, the Octocube is all smoke and mirrors. You could spend quite a while trying to figure out what it is or does. Go on. See if you can figure it out. If you can’t work it out from the pictures alone then how about the name. Octocube. Any help? The sharper eye will observe the 2 cables/pipes at the rear so surely it does something right? Designer Vivien Muller has created this little mystery for your Thursday morning enjoyment. Give up? Entirely created from a single 90 degree elbow, the Octocube builds up into a radiant heater with a large surface area, and the inherent flexibility and modularity of the elbow. It is designed to be a sculptural heater that fits in with any interior.

I would say right the opposite as Lim said: looks horrible to me (like a kind of hexaedric brain), but I think it can really work quite good. Modularity is great, I can imagine thousands of different desigs using the same elbow pieces…

I am wondering how much of the heat from the inside coils of the cube would radiate out efficiently. The one on the wall looks nice, but seems sort of high on the wall to use the heat well. I think the flat model placed on the floor would be the most useful, but hard to walk on or clean, and may not be structurally stong enough. A good concept, but needs some refinement.

unless it’s that well designed, surely there’s an issue with placing a heater directly on a floor, especially a laminate wooden one (it wouldn’t exactly be aimed at carpet folk now would it?)… think of the damage to the laminate unless the bottom stayed sufficiently cool/cold (which seems unlikely given the design)

What would be a nice idea, would be if you could expand it when heating and then contract it back for storage purposes. Similar to those childrens toys that resemble a wire frame ball that expands when pulled. Think how many socks you could dry on all that surface area??? Although I am not sure the people who would buy this wear socks